Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today: One Blogger Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today - Softcover

Sanchez, Yoani

 
9781935554257: Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today: One Blogger Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1935554255 ISBN 13: 9781935554257
Verlag: Melville House, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

She's been kidnapped and beaten, lives under surveillance, and can only get online—in disguise—at tourist hotspots. She's a blogger, she's a Cuban, and she's a worldwide sensation.

Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about what it means to live under the Castro regime: the chronic hunger and the difficulty of shopping; the art of repairing ancient appliances; and the struggles of living under a propaganda machine that pushes deep into public and private life.

For these simple acts of truth-telling her life is one of constant threat. But she continues on, refusing to be silenced—a living response to all who have ceased to believe in a future for Cuba.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

YOANI SÁNCHEZ, a University of Havana graduate in philology, emigrated to Switzerland in 2002. Two years later, she decided to return to Cuba but promised herself she would live there as a free person and started her blog, Generation Y, upon her return. In 2008, Time magazine named her one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World"; it named Generation Y one of the "Best Blogs of 2009." Spain honored her with its highest award for digital journalism, the Ortega y Gasset Prize. In 2011, Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton honored her with the International Women of Culture Award. She lives with her husband, independent journalist Reinaldo Escobar, and their son in a high-rise apartment in Havana overlooking Revolution Square.
Translator 

M.J. PORTER lives in Seattle, where she is a partner in a transportation-consulting firm. She co-founded the cooperative website, HemosOido.com, where volunteers now translate the work of more than thirty Cuban bloggers into English, German, French and Danish.

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Verlag
Melville House
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1935554255
ISBN 13 
9781935554257
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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